Rolling the ladder up behind us
Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.
by Xe Iaso's blog June 20, 2025Hello!
I'm Edmund Miller, I'm a PhD candidate, I have a broad range of interests, primarily in Functional Genomics. Through that interest I got into bioinformatics after realizing I didn't have golden hands at the bench during undergrad. That taste of programming experience got me dabling in writing smart contracts and web apps and I cut my teeth on that. Through my research experience I aquired a taste for processing data with workflows of the reproducible and high-throughput varietal. I saw the light in March 2020 when I found nf-core and tossed aside the reptilian workflow manager for Nextflow. I love a good crossover episode of technologies and I'm always trying to push to the envelope.
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Unionize or die
Tech workers have long resisted the suggestion that we should be organized into unions. The topic is consistently met with a cold reception by tech workers when it is raised, and no big tech workforce is meaningfully organized. This is a fatal mistake – and …
by Drew DeVault's blog June 9, 2025nf-core/tools - 3.3
An nf-testic release
by nf-core blog June 3, 2025Generated by Open Ring